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@BCDreyer
Jun 17 • 4 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Of course there’s no feminine for “cuckold.” Why would anyone have thought that a woman’s being cheated on was worthy of a special derogatory term?
What’s the feminine of “cuckold”?

I dunno, “wife”?
Though “laughingstock” is good enough for the likes of either Schlapp.
What is the sound of one cuck schlapping?

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Jun 17
I can't right now think of another once-strict rule of English that's gone so utterly forgotten/ignored than the differentiation between "will" and "shall."
"This is how you use 'will' and 'shall' in the first person, but in the third person you use them in precisely the opposite fashion...."

That's not a rule. That's a trap.
Or is it first and second person? Not much remembering (or caring enough to look it up).
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Jun 17
I still think of the time a leading American academic who posts here frequently and has a massive following plagiarized another twitterer's very clever joke down to the comma.
The "remove this follower" button is such a treat.
The originator of the joke called the plagiarizer out on it, as did numerous others.

Crickets.

1.3 million followers and counting...
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Jun 15
Goodbye to the incomparable Glenda Jackson. ImageImageImageImage
I saw Glenda Jackson onstage five times, starting with Rose back in 1981 and then her Lady Macbeth (with her and Christopher Plummer in two completely different plays), Lear in London, Three Tall Women, and Lear in NYC.

It was always an event. Image
It was not unamusing, on my way to London to see her in Lear in 2016 for her first time onstage in a quarter century, to explain my excitement to younger and savvy colleagues who had never so much as heard of her.
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May 15
OK, that made me want to vomit.

#HocusPotus
Dude's name still isn't spelled Jeryd, for pete's sake, but otherwise that was brilliant if by brilliant you mean it was like getting my hand caught in a garbage disposal for an hour.
Really hoping that next week Gerri will push Roman off the Edge observation deck at Hudson Yards.
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May 14
Yeah, that's an editing error all right.
I must confess that I have zero idea how that error could get written into an article in the first place and zero idea how it could not get edited out.
I mean, my standard copyediting rule is: If it's a proper noun, look it up.
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May 14
I find ice cream trucks that play The Entertainer absolutely traumatizing.

And I don’t mean the Olivier movie.
There's a lot—quite a lot—of Scott Joplin music I love, including the wonderful Treemonisha, but the merest hint of "The Entertainer" makes me want to tear off my own ears.

From 1973 through at least 1975, it was INESCAPABLE.
And unlike the Pachlebel Canon in D, which I've made friends with again after a multi-decade break, "The Entertainer" is still my sworn enemy.

It's just so g.d. jaunty.
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